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The last three chapters have dealt with new areas of mathematical physics, outside the traditional realm of mechanics: in some contrast, this chapter and the next one deal with developments within mechanics. The developments described are no less substantial than those which we have already seen.
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Grattan-Guinness, I. (1990). The entry of Navier and the triumph of Cauchy: elasticity theory, 1819–1830. In: Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840. Science Networks · Historical Studies, vol 4. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7811-1_15
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